Happy what?

[Jazzman]

So how's this for a Happy Valentines Day story? I get a call yesterday from one of the girls I work with and she's obviously fighting tears. An email came in letting us (and 150 other stores) know that we're closing. As of closing the night before we're all no longer employees of our company. We now belong to a liquidator and will be selling off everything until the store is empty and then we're done. Benefits, insurance, retirements, everything are all now canceled. It doesn't bother me much because I'm just there making a little extra bread while I'm in school but I really feel for the full timers who were in it for the long haul. Emails from all the other closing stores started flying with rantings and lots of venting. Some people have been with the company for years and are now out on their @$$es. Super lame. The kicker? A box labeled "Do Not Open Until Directed To Do So" had arrived that morning. We, of course, opened it and it was full of "Store Closing" signs so this has been in the works for weeks, if not months, and they just sprung it now.

So yeah, in a way, I was involved in a new Valentines Day Massacre yesterday. Fun times!


(Oh, so BTW, if any of you want some nice leather goods make a trip to a nearby Wilsons Leather over the next few weeks. There's bound to be one closing near almost everyone and from the looks of it stuff is going to be marked way, way down. Good hunting!)